Systems


Thinking In Systems: A Primer
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Complexity: A Guided Tour
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Chaos: Making a New Science
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Business Dynamics
Systems don’t break. They optimize—until people become variables.
Gary D. Frazier

Nick Harkaway
Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks - they're not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they can be - but they are hacks for the human mind, ways of manipulating us into particular decisions we otherwise might not make. They are also, in a way, deliberate underminings of the core principle of the free market, which derives its legitimacy from the idea that informed self- ...more
Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant

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